Short Personal Q&A Session with Steven Akdemir on himself as a writer

                  How did you learn to write, Steven?

English classes have always been a struggle for me, until I took English as a freshman and sophomore in high school. The sheer difficulty and volume (for me, not so much for everyone else) of the work at the time eventually drove me to put every single thing in my mind down onto the paper and just pick out what was good from that, and eventually I just started filtering out the pointless things from my mind before even writing it down.

What kind of writer are you?

I like to think of myself as a sprint-writer. A sprinter in any sport (namely track and swimming) works out by doing shorter, very intense work with a lot of rest, and that is how I write. I can put down a lot of ideas and get a lot done in a very short time, but can't do that for more than 30 minutes or so at a time. Rest is important!